A good question: Who is your favourite disciple?

29/08/2023 | Reform

One question, four answers

BARBARA BENNETT‘He may have been the only disciple not from Galilee – an odd man out!’

I am intrigued by several of the disciples, but the most controversial of them is Judas Iscariot; Judas the Betrayer; … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘I handed in my keys and walked home with tears streaming down my face’

29/08/2023 | Reform

Sheila Maxey clears out and finds lost treasures

Last Saturday I went into Brentwood United Reformed Church for the last time. Men from the two other churches in the pastorate were loading things into a hired white van – the … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘After all, we’ve not read every book yet’

29/08/2023 | Reform

Paul Kerensa enjoys a bedtime story

I still read bedtime stories to my children, perhaps later than most. I don’t mean that it’s late in the day – a midnight reading would be madness. I mean our children may be … Read More

Here and Now: Isaac Harvey

29/08/2023 | Reform 1

Isaac Harvey overcomes troubled times

Will you gain anything if you win the whole world but lose your life?’ This question is taken from the Bible, Matthew 16:26, from the Good News version.

I had read this verse at a … Read More

When asylum seekers are found

29/08/2023 | Reform

It’s not just the asylum seekers whose lives are changed by one of the latest projects to win a URC Community Project Award. Laurence Wareing reports

The thing about DARE, says Negan, is that ‘you don’t have to go to … Read More

Chapter & Verse: Exodus 14:13-14

29/08/2023 | Reform

Sue Walker learns how to trust God

This scripture hit me between the eyes 19 days before my 30-year-old daughter was diagnosed with acute leukaemia in December 2020, during lockdown. Now at some distance, I can look back at what … Read More